Tiger Woods is widely regarded as the best golfer ever to grace the links, but he hasn’t played in a competitive event since The Open Championship in July.
The 15-time major championship winner has had two major surgeries this year to go along with the countless others he’s had in the past.
Woods, 49, announced in March that he had ruptured his left Achilles tendon while training. The 82-time PGA TOUR winner also needed what ESPN reported as his seventh total back surgery back in October, in order to swap out a disk in his lower back that was causing pain and stiffness.
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Tuesday marked his first time speaking to the media about his future career plans and while he didn’t have an exact timeline, he did share some news that will disappoint fans across the golf world.
Golf fans have been loving the chance to watch Woods and his 16-year-old son, Charlie Woods play in the PNC Championship. With the tournament taking place on Dec. 18-21 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando in Florida, Woods made it clear he would not be able to play alongside his son.
The elder Woods said he had just started chipping and putting within the last week, and isn’t willing to participate even in that capacity out of fairness to others in the tournament.
“No, it wouldn’t be fair,” Woods said via Golf Channel. “Not only it wouldn’t be fair to my son, but it wouldn’t be fair to another team that could play and could have that experience that we’ve had for a number of years.”
While everyone wants answers on when and where he will return to competitive golf, Woods expressed that he too wants to figure out when he will be able to.
“Just let me get back to playing again, let me do that, and then I’ll kind of figure out what the schedule is going to be,” Woods said. “I’m a ways away from that part of it and that type of decision, that type of commitment level.”
As for his son, he ranks No. 13 in the American Junior Golf Association rankings and has yet to decide where he will play college golf as a 2027 recruit.
Unfortunately, fans of the Woods’ may have to wait a year to see them team up again.
